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Re: (ASCEND) IP address leaks
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At 12:46 PM 7/21/98 -0700, Kevin A. Smith wrote:
>At 04:39 AM 7/21/98 -0400, Rob Marlowe wrote:
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>>We're currently running 6.1.0 tik.m40 on our Max 4048's. The first
>>Max in my hunt group is leaking IP addresses pretty bad. Is there
>>anything I can do to make things better besides giving it plenty of
>>extra IP addresses and rebooting it every 48 hours or so?
>
>As you will see other replies to this, I'll just add a few comments.
>
>When 6.1.0 was released, it had been run on quite a few customer sites
>in BETA. Unfortunately, even "quite a few" does not cover all of the possible
>configuration combinations of a complex box like the MAX - and we found out
>with the release that some sites would get IP address leaks and possible
>out-of-memory conditions (including resets, failed RADIUS requests etc).
>
>6.1.3 was released to address the memory issues and fixed what we thought
>was the cause of the IP address leaks. We confirmed this by running it on
>customer sites that had been reporting the IP leaks on 6.1.0 - all seemed to
>be fixed. But once again, it seems we didn't get all of the possible
>configuration combinations that could cause the leak and still some people
>get the leak in 6.1.3.
>
>We appear to have isolated it to being related to consistent authentication
>or MPP failure when bringing up the second channel. One workaround that seems
>to help (the reason being quite complex :) is to set the parameter:
>
>ethernet/Mod Config/Auth/Auth Pool=No
>
>We should have a further fix in the next point release possibly this week. It
>has been confirmed on some customer sites, but we are trying to verify all
>known configurations that may cause the leak.
>
>
>Kevin Smith Ascend Communications...
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